And because female reporters were banned from battlefields, they had to get creative in finding an angle that could illuminate the larger conflict. If they couldn’t go to the front lines, they would write about the hospital, or the home front. They had to use their voice, their style, to make the most of those subjects, establishing, Cooke argues, a precedent for the “New Journalism” that men such as Tom Wolfe were credited with having invented in the ’60s and ’70s.